Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel & Jawaharlal Nehru

Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950) was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India. Jawaharlal Nehru (‎ 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964), often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian lawyer, politician and statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India (1947–64) and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs.5.0/5

NEHRU’S PACIFISM HAD NEARLY COST US TAWANG Claude Arpi | It is entirely due to Major Bob Khathing's courage and swift action, backed by the Assam Governor, that Tawang is part of India. Had Jawaharlal Nehru had his way, it would have been Chinese territory today While the legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru is being discussed by ‘eminent’ personalities at the Nehru International Conference, organised by the Indian National Congress to commemorate Nehru’s 125th birth anniversary, it is perhaps time to stop using the usual clichés about the first Prime Minister’s 17 years at India’s helm. By the way, I seriously doubt if many of the invitees of the conference have read any of the 58 volumes of Nehru’s Selected Works. During the recent months, many have questioned the audacity to compare Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to Nehru, but it is obvious that the Sardar would have been a far more decisive Prime Minister than the Pandit. Remember Kashmir. In a rare interview, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who was Direc ...

07 Nov 2014 10:08

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel wrote a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on this day . { 7-11-1950 } , warning him about the dangers from China.

05 Nov 2014 15:37

your views when Modi said "Jawaharlal Nehru was not present at the funeral of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel"?

13 Jun 2014 10:08

Nehru Cancer of the Nation (which is still spreading) Part 1 He should never have become the PM it was always supposed to vallab bhai 12 out of 15 Pradesh Congress Committees, the only legal bodies having power to nominate and elect President of the Party, nominated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The remaining three may not have nominated Patel but then they did not nominate anyone else also including Jawaharlal Nehru. Thus, no Pradesh Congress Committee proposed the name of Jawaharlal Nehru even on the last day of filing the nominations i.e. April 29, 1946. J.B Kripalani took the lead in finding the proposers and seconders for Nehru’s candidacy, in deference to Gandhi’s wishes, during the Working Committee meeting on 29.04.1946 in New Delhi. Kripalani succeeded in getting a few Working Committee members and local members of AICC to propose Nehru’s name for the post.6 Though, Gandhiji knew Jawaharlal’s nomination almost missed the April 29 deadline, and also even he could not get at least one Pradesh C ...

31 May 2014 07:15

Jawaharlal Nehru outlived both Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and B R Ambedkar by many years and his political stature was unchallenged, even after 1962. He could have crossed over to the Dark Side any time he wanted

Prime Ministers from the first Jawaharlal Nehru, 1947 to the fifteenth Narendra Damodardas Modi, sworn in May 26, 2014 Some coincidences with these two 1947 and 2014 are toe identical calendars and today the 27th May is Jawaharlal's Death Anniversary and just about end of Congress Rule in India and it's the first Official Day of Narendra Modi. Let's take a moment of silence and pray for Nehru Chacha on his Death Anniversary. 1947 was Sardar Patel's Dream and the most deserving Prime Minister of India, and if that happened there wouldn't have been any Gandhis' and he backed out due to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. And now this time with BJP's clean victory, Narendra Modi, is fulfilling unfinished dreams of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and the obstructing factor today being LK Advani, who still at this age had a dream if becoming Prime Minister and Modi took a Bold and Clever Move by not letting that happen. Kashmir was an issue and still is, let's hope it gets resolved, but I doubt it's going to happen by bilat ...

The Constitution was drafted by the Constituent Assembly, which was elected by the elected members of the provincial assemblies. Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Sanjay Phakey, Jawaharlal Nehru, C. Rajagopalachari, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Kanaiyalal Munshi, Purushottam Mavalankar, Sandipkumar Patel, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Nalini Ranjan Ghosh, and Balwantrai Mehta were some important figures in the Assembly. People say it was written by Ambedkar because he was chairman. Prominent jurists like Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, Benegal Narsing Rau and K. M. Munshi, Ganesh Mavlankar were also members of the Assembly. Sarojini Naidu, Hansa Mehta, Durgabai Deshmukh, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Vijayalakshmi Pandit were important women members. The constitutional advisor was Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (who became First Indian Judge in International Court of Justice, 1950–54). Rs.1,00,00,000 was official estimate of expenditure on Constituent Assembly. I am talking in year 1949. Why we celebrat ...

06 Apr 2014 17:35

Today India is on the threshold of general elections. I post an article I had written many years ago. Nehru was epitome of inclusivity and the original real secular politician.: Appreciating JN In childhood, I was lead by teachers and peers to venerate Jawaharlal Nehru. Then, on growing up, I found lot of criticism heaped on Nehru by people around me. They abused him squarely. Adolescence appreciates such fiery criticisms and for some time, I went along with these opposite views as well. Now, when I can discern and choose my views with a bit more equilibrated mind-set, and poise, I think it was Nehru who was the need of the newly Independent India; may be even more than Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, or, Atal Behari Vajpayee. Reasoning is simple, but to begin, as a Prime Minister what kind of India had he inherited, India that historically had never been, politically, a single nation. To list the sufferings of the newborn India: 1] Illiteracy 2] Superbly superstitious [irrational] India 3] Casteist India 4 ...

A cabal of self-confessed Hindu nationalists, as distinct from Indian nationalists, consistently lauds Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel because it finds in him a soulmate. He is not praised by himself; significantly, he is always pitted against Nehru. By A.G. NOORANI “The communalism of a majority is apt to be taken for nationalism.” - Jawaharlal Nehru on January 5, 1961. IN November 1945 one of the top Congress leaders inaugurated on Marine Drive in Mumbai, just next to the Chowpati Beach, the Pransukhlal Mafatlal Hindu Swimming Pool. It was, and still is, exclusively for the use of Hindus. Its doors remain shut, even in 2013, for Muslims and other communities. No prizes for guessing who that top leader was. There was one and only one top Congress leader who would have done the deed, namely, Vallabhbhai Patel. For long a plaque on the frontage of the premises boldly proclaimed his achievement. Its implications were lost on none. The astute advocate of the two-nation theory, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was quick to ...

U knw Jaswant Singh ( JASWANT GARH ) in tawang but do you know BOB KHATHING ??? _ In 1951, Major Bob Khathing commanded a force of 200 soldiers and re-established India’s sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh, much to the annoyance of Jawaharlal Nehru. Sidharth Mishra profiles his life and work on his 100th birth anniversary Sixty-four years after Independence, it seems we have consigned to the dustbin of history some of our freedom fighters and stalwarts who played a sterling role in knitting the country together. Ironically, the discourse has been confined to the positive role played by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and, of course, the fallacies of Nehruvian policy. In the process, the contributions of a few great men do not even make it to the footnote of our mainstream history. Blame it on the lack of official acknowledgment of their work and, of course, the failure of intellectuals, rooted in their respective ideological moorings, to initiate an independent research to unveil the truth. One such initiati . ...

23 Nov 2013 10:29

1. Who was the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons? (A) Dadabhai Naoroji (B) Mahadev Govind (C) Madan Mohan Malaviya (D) Mahatma Gandhi Answer: (a) 2. Consider the following pairs: 1. B. G. Tilak - founder of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha 2. Madan Mohan Malaviya - founder of Banaras Hindu University 3. Keshab Chandra Sen - Leader of Brahmo Samaj Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 Answer: (c) 3. Who among the following Governor General created the Covenanted Civil Service of India which later came to be known as the Indian Civil Service? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)] (a) Warren Hastings (b) Wellesley (c) Cornwallis (d) William Bentinck Answer: (c) 4. Who of the following founded the Ahmedabad Textile labour Association? [UPSC 2009(CS-P)] (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (c) N. M. Joshi (d) J. B. Kripalani Answer: (a) 5. Who was the first European to designate ‘Aryans’ as a race? [UPSC 2008] (a) Sir William Jo ...

21 Nov 2013 02:47

Did you know? In the early 20th century, a nationwide struggle for independence gained momentum. Indian National Congress, under the leadership of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru engaged in mass campaigns of civil disobedience with millions of protesters joining in inspired by Gandhi’s’ mantra of ‘ahimsa’ - non-violence. Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of "Swaraj" (self-rule) and a strong radical in Indian perception. His famous quote, "Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!" is well-remembered in India even today. Muhammad Ali Jinnah continued his constitutional struggle for the rights of minorities in India. Revolutionaries like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh preached armed revolution to achieve independence. Poets such as Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam used literature, poetry and speech as a tool for political wakefulness. Feminists such as Sarojini Naidu and Begum Rokeya championed the cause o ...

17 Nov 2013 06:20

PLEASE SEE THE TRUTH : - Modi Speaks a lie about Sardar Patel’s Funeral In an interview to Dainik Bhaskar in Ahmadabad Narendra Modi (26th Oct 2013) criticized country’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru for not attending the funeral procession of the then Home Minister of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. One knows Modi has been resorting to the motivated propaganda about so many things to build up his image. Many of his claims of development of Gujarat are also false. One knows that it was Sardar Patel who said that it is due to the ‘Hate spread by RSS, Modi’s parent organization, that we had to lose the Father of our Nation’. Now this statement of his about Nehru is again a blatant lie. Morarji Desai in his Autobiography, Vol 1, Page 271, para 2, writes that the President of India Babu Rajendra Prasad and the Prime Minister of India Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru attended the funeral of Sardar Patel, which was held in Mumbai. Such false hoods have been the basis on which Modi is building his image amongst a ...

14 Nov 2013 08:30

A Short conversation in between Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel n Jawaharlal Nehru in 1949, Common House of India (Parliament). Patel : Have you ever picked up the slum's child and petted it in your lap? Nehru: .(was speechless). Patel : No, because it will make your Foreign suit look dirty. Nehru was unanswerable and silent. Now Today We are now celebrating Children day on the account of Nehru's birthday, who had no love and mercy for we poor, who putted discrimination in between us on economical status, who alway pictured in foreign suit n never boycotted foreign goods.

14 Nov 2013 04:53

The divide that never was Any Nehru-Patel differences have been deliberately exaggerated by partisan interests. In truth, they shared a close bond that overrode the differences Over the past month, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party have laid competing claims to the legacy of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in Independent India’s first government headed by Jawaharlal Nehru. What is the truth? Nehru and Patel often disagreed, and furiously so. But such was the beauty of the relationship that they rarely kept a secret from each other. They wrote to each other almost every other day, expressing their doubts and differences honestly and openly, and concluding in the end that their mutual affection and regard outweighed any difference they felt with regard to state policy. In their letters, the two great men agonised over the rumours surrounding their relationship and the constant attempts to create a divide between them

14 Nov 2013 03:42

Whatever said and done, I will still hold Jawaharlal Nehru in high regards. He failed brutally in terms of the policy towards China, but he was the one who welcomed Dalai Lama. He stood firm when the sub-continent was bathing in blood, did whatever he could to bring peace. He even after having so many disagreements with his mentor & colleagues still, he gave a new meaning to 'which was not majoritarian assertion unlike Europe. He initiated the democracy from scratch with partners who stood opposite like Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, C. Rajagopalachari and friends including Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He opposed the idea of Congress President's post to be hereditary but sycophants placed his very daughter on the throne. About his love affair with Lady Mountbatten, I am sure we are mature enough to not to judge individuals and their mutual affectionate relationship. He stood as a statesman of high appeal.

Advaniji again rakes up Nehru, Patel differences New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Monday referred to another book to support his claim that there were differences between Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel over sending the Indian Army to Hyderabad when the Nizam was trying to join Pakistan at the time of partition. In his latest blog post, Advani refers to a book by Balraj Krishna, a journalist, titled 'India's Bismarck: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel'. "In a democratic set-up, Cabinet sanction was essential for police action. Patel faced a formidable task in overcoming Nehru's reluctance. At one of the meetings of the defence committee, of which Nehru was the chairman, there was so much bitterness that Sardar Patel walked out," Advani said, quoting from the book. The then home secretary V P Menon later told a rotary meeting that when he saw the Home Minister's seat vacant, he too walked out of the Cabinet meeting after five minutes, the BJP leader said, reading from the book. "This seemed to have shak ...

11 Nov 2013 14:02

Now, Modi confuses freedom fighter with Jan Sangh founder CNN-IBN | 10-Nov-2013 23:47 PM New Delhi: With the assembly elections round the corner, Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi stepped up the attack on the Congress party and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blaming them for not standing up to China. But even as the Gujarat strongman continued his attack on the ruling party, he also committed a faux paus referring freedom fighter Shyamaji Krishna Varma as Shyama Prasad Mookherjee. While slamming the Congress party for sheer disregard to freedom fighters, Modi said: "Who is playing with India's history? Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was a revolutionist. He died in 1930 in London. His last wish was that his ashes should be brought to India after Independence." "Jawaharlal Nehru should have sent an emissary to bring the ashes back. Congress government didn't get them back till 2003. It was I who got the ashes back to India in 2003," added Modi. Realising the goof-up, the Gujar ...

11 Nov 2013 09:16

What is there in Vidya Subrammanim's article, let us see, The forgotten promise of 1949 The RSS wrote a non-political role for itself as part of an undertaking it gave Sardar Patel. The overtpolitical role it has assumed in 2013 is a breach of that agreement and its own constitution Vidya Subrahmaniam The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s constitution explicitly states that it will stay clear of politics. The constitution itself was written, in 1949, because Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel would have it no other way. The events of 2013 have comprehensively erased that part of India’s history. The RSS has taken full control of the Bharatiya Janata Party. It has overridden internal opposition to name the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate. No act can be politically more overt than this. A mentor The RSS has always been to the BJP, earlier the Jan Sangh, a mentor the latter could not disobey — because the Jan Sangh was seeded by the RSS whose top pracharaks (propagandists) formed the new party’s intellectual ...

10 Nov 2013 16:18

A rare 715-page book in possession of a veteran Congress leader of Sangam City aptly blows away the raging controversy over differences between first Prime Minister late Pt Jawaharlal Nehru and his deputy Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

10 Nov 2013 15:30

GANDHI, NEHRU AND PATEL UNITY WAS BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT November 10, 2013 at 8:59pm Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel remained united with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru till his end in the midst of his difference of opinions with Gandhi and Nehru. This truth should never be forgotten by Indians. Sardar Patel remained firm and acted strong not only against Muslim kings, but also against Hindu kings on the point of keeping unity of post-partition India intact. Sardar Patel therefore cannot be labeled either as pro-Hindu or as anti-Muslim. Sardar Patel remained only as true Indian till his death. Unity of post-partition India itself is Indian nationalism remains the message of Sardar Patel forever. –Adv.B.S.More

05 Nov 2013 17:06

'Only I know how much Nehru toiled for India' Tags :Patels quo, Sardar Patel, Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Partys quote, Jawaharlal Nehru November 05, 2013 Suddenly the country has been completely taken over by a storm of discussion over the relationship between India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, largely engineered by some of the major parties in an apparent political move as the crucial general elections draw closer. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said last week that “every Indian still regrets that Sardar Patel did not became the first Prime Minister”. The comments that were made in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s presence did not go down well with the ruling Congress, which quickly reacted that Modi was “brazenly trying to usurp Patel’s rich legacy for political propaganda”, questioning “whether Modi agreed with Patel’s view on RSS”. Modi rebutted that “India needed Patel’s secu ...

03 Nov 2013 11:54

History, as French historian and codirector of legendary journal Annales Marc Ferro says, exercises a double function both therapeutic and militant. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, in keeping with his branding as a strong Hindutva icon, seems to prefer the latter. The distortion he is capable of was evident in Patna; mixing the Mauryan and Gupta dynasties and bringing Alexander to Bihar. For the past few days Modi — who is even called Chhota Sardar by some party members — has been harping on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, independent India's first Home Minister. As is Modi's wont he has appropriated Patel without much homework. With its colossal ignorance about Patel, Congress is not helping the debate either. But it would do both Modi and Congress good to go through 10-volumes of Sardar Patel's correspondence of five years — 1945-50 — the tumultuous period in Indian history when the Patel-Jawaharlal Nehru rift was at its peak. It is a fact that Patel and Nehru were cut from different ...

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) received Bharat Ratna in 1955. Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) in 1971 Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) in 1991 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) in 1991. Decedents of Nehru think that he was the only person responsible for India's freedom. The family has derived maximum benefit from his legacy and consciously tried to sideline all others and erase them from the memory of public and future generation. Otherwise how one can explain the delay of 41 years in conferring Sardar Patel, Bharat Ratna, when Rajiv Gandhi was conferred immediately after his death and Jawaharlal and Indira received (rather grabbed) when they themselves were Prime Ministers. It was only P V Narasimha Rao ( congress Prime Minister outside Nehru family) who realised that Sardar Patel was worth it.

30 Oct 2013 18:46

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was most unhappy with Jawaharlal Nehru for his utterances, in the wake of the Cabinet Mission proposals, propelling Mohammad Ali Jinnah to ''renew'' the demand for Pakistan with the Muslim League deciding on ''direct action.''

30 Oct 2013 18:15

MUST READ It with patience... 5 mistakes Of Nehru that India is suffering even after 50 years... Jawaharlal Nehru. India's first Prime Minister. He was among leaders foundation of modern India. UK educated - and the son of an eminent lawyer Motilal Nehru, Nehru took the reins of country with Great Expectations. He took great decision and forwarded the country at a time when condition of country was unstable , for which country is grateful. But he took some decisions for which country paid heavily... 1. Declaration to take Kashmir issue to the UN Tribesmen invaded Kashmir in 1947, India was upset. October 1947 when the last days of the Pakistani tribals were at distance of kilometers from Srinagar, the cabinet met in Delhi. At that meeting, Manek Shaw Army Colonel (later Manek Shaw was madeField Marshal) was present from army's side.Shaw said in an interview about that meeting of Cabinet in New Delhi . He said, "As usual Nehru spoke on issues like the United Nations, Russia, Africa, God and others. But a . ...

30 Oct 2013 16:59

Amidst all this hullabaloo over Sardar Patel,one thing that WOULD've been different had he been around is 1962 war Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on 7 November 1950 not only deploring Indian Ambassador KM Panikkar's.

The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the epic of Hindu mythology, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian Independence Movement and the first three decades post-independence. Figures from Indian history are transformed into characters from mythology, and the mythical story of India is retold as a history of Indian independence and subsequent history, up through the 1980s. Some allegorical figures in the novel- Ved Vyas, the narrator, -Ganpati, the assumed interlocutor and scribe of the text, -Kanika, Krishna Menon, the defence minister during the China war, -Ganga Datta (Gangaji or the Mahaguru), Mahatma Gandhi, -Dhritarashtra, Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, often termed a blind idealist, -Pandu the pale, Shubhash Chandra Bose, -Vidur Hastinapuri (Vidur Dharmaputra), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, -Jayaprakash Drona, Jayaprakash Narayan, a former freedom fighter who opposed the rule of Indi ...

The True Face of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru..The man who ruled our Independent nation (INDIA) for 15 years. Today is Mr. Rahul Gandhi's Birthday.PAST IS PAST, WE CAN NOT CHANGE THAT BUT.PRESENT IS IN OUR HAND N CAN DETERMINE OUR FUTURE WITH OUR ACTIONS. MUST READ. It is a truism that society treats the failures in its ranks rather poorly. They lose respect, are looked down upon, and because they have failed to live up to expectations, are often denied a second chance. In India, there is one resounding exception to this rule, Jawaharlal Nehru. Any objective assessment of the man would reveal that his failures were many, real and substantial. His claimed successes, on the other hand, owed much to the fact that as the first Prime Minister of independent India, he was judged against the benchmark of what the British had left India in. The British was here as our colonial overlords, and they had little interest in India’s development. Therefore, a comparison with their record is setting the bar very low, closer to ...

15 Jun 2013 04:09

When it comes to fascism and dectatorship, people are comparing Gandhi-Nehru family v/s Narendra Modi. This is a great injustice to Shri Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ! In the meeting called to select the first Prime Minister of India, every body had voted for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, still Gandhiji declared Jawaharlal Nehru for the job !! ( The nation is paying the price of this Gandhian dectatorship in form of Kashmir issue )... Purushottam Lohiya

25 Jan 2013 16:56

The Purna Swaraj Flag The CWC met in Bombay from 6 to 8 August 1931 and rejected the all-saffron flag model recommended by the Flag Committee on the grounds that it was politically unsuitable and also because the flag reflected a drastic change from the prevailing Swaraj flag. CWC, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was attended by Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr M.A. Ansari, Dr Syed Mohammed, Sardul Singh Caveeshar, J.M. Sen Gupta and Dr M.S. Aney. Jairamdas Daulatram, Abul Kalam Azad, Madan Mohan Nialaviya, P. Sitaramayya, T.A.K. Sherwani and Purushottamdas Tandon were members co-opted. The new arrangement was in conformity with the basic principle of flag designing. Saffron over white over green with a charkha (spinning wheel) in navy blue at the centre of the white stripe. Since the color white was interposed between saffron and green, all the three colors stood out distinctly from each other in the new flag. It implied that the colors stood for qualities not communities. ...